7. His negative feelings are coming from the fact that he's a hateful bigot

Plain and simple.

It's rare that homophobia is fueled by repressed homosexuality, and the notion that every rabid homophobe is a self-hating gay is as mistaken as the notion that every member of the KKK is a self-hating black person.

As gently as I can put this: Over DU's illustrious six-year history, we have heard it all: Bush is gay. Rove is gay. Santorum is gay. Hastert is gay. Ann Coulter is gay (when she's not being a man). Giuliani isn't gay, but he's a crossdresser (so it's OK to let people think he might be gay).

You need to understand that nearly every bad guy on the planet has been said to be gay on DU.

Yes, there are bad guys who are gay, or bi. Ted Haggard. Mark Foley. Lesser idiots like Jim Kolbe. Many, many others.

I am among the first to delight in the exposure of any of my enemies whose private lives contradict their public "moral values" -- but only where there is incontrovertible evidence.

Where there is no evidence, there is simply idle speculation, rumormongering, and schoolyard snickering, the implication being 1) gay = bad, thus So-and-So must be gay, and/or 2) all homophobes are secretly gay, thus So-and-So must be gay.

This is not a small thing to many of us who are gay. There are bad people who are gay, just as there are bad people who are straight -- but I doubt you will ever hear the despicable behavior of a straight person equated with the fact that s/he is heterosexual.

You must also understand that this phenomenon is not exclusive to DU. Implying that gay = bad, thus So-and-So must be gay, is one of the oldest tactics of the Radical Right. Years ago, Pat Robertson said: "Many of those people involved (with) Adolf Hitler were Satanists. Many of them were homosexuals. The two things seem to go together. It is a pathology. It is a sickness."

Robertson was not joking. His followers, and many others who don't know any better, believe this filth.

Please do not propagate any more unfounded rumors. You are hurting us when you do it, even if you were only joking.

And remember: Not every homophobe is a self-loathing closet case. White racists aren't secretly black, are they?

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